From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2002-12-09T12:43:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [YANQ] -yet another (ruby) newbie question -string#concat

Hello sir Mike (aka Mike Campbell [mailto:michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com]):

You remarked last Monday, December 09, 2002 11:10 AM:

> > String#concat is a synonym for String#<<, and since it modifies the 
> > object, a concat! version wouldn't make sense.  You can indeed use 
> > String#+ if you want to create a new string instead of 
> modifying the 
> > old one.
> 
> To be fair here, it might be argued that the String#concat 
> alias is misnamed and
> *IT* doesn't make sense, given what it does.  Seems to me 
> (and I'm guessing
> Botp) that the alias SHOULD be String#concat!.

You read my mind right, sir Mike. I was trying to avoid !-methods,
(un)fortunately, I tripped/missed. #concat does what "#concat!" does :-)

Anyway, I have one non-! method  to avoid, #concat [*]

Kind regards,
-botp

[*] pls don't get me wrong on the avoidance, this is only my personal way of
learning ruby... It works for me but it may not work some/all of the
nubies...